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1 Demi doppia
| Issuer | Republic of Lucca |
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| Year | 1749 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Within a beaded border, the crowned arms of the Republic of Lucca — a striped shield bearing a diagonal band — flanked by elaborate foliate and festoon ornaments. The date 1749 appears in the lower field below the shield. The encircling legend reads RESPUBLICA LUCENSIS. |
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| Reverse description | Within a beaded border, a frontal bust of the Volto Santo (Holy Face of Lucca), depicted wearing an ornate collar and a six-petalled floral crown surmounted by a cross, rendered in the devotional style characteristic of Lucchese coinage. The surrounding legend reads VULTVS SANCTVS. |
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Lucca's gold coinage of the mid-eighteenth century occupied a peculiar political position: the Republic was one of the last surviving independent Italian city-states, surrounded by Bourbon-controlled Tuscany and the Duchy of Modena, and it maintained its own mint partly as a deliberate assertion of that independence. The demi doppia denomination was a practical subdivision of the doppia, intended for everyday commercial transactions in a city whose silk trade generated enough wealth to sustain a gold-denominated economy well into the 1700s.
MIR 239 distinguishes several die varieties within this type; CNI XI catalogues them exhaustively across multiple obverse punchings.